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flabberghaster wrote

Reply to comment by twovests in Bernie Sanders released this video, what do you think? --- "I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?" Here is my answer: by twovests

I suspect she's trying the Starmer playbook (which is the standard dem one). Just try to not say anything that gets you a negative news cycle and be the alternative while you let your opponent be horrible.

For this she needs to not piss off the big donors or corporate class, and they tend to be pro Zionism. The fact that most people aren't is one thing, but the fact that the news media, advertisers, and big donors tend to be means if she says she supports reigning in Israel's actions, that's gonna create a news cycle or risk turning off the donors.

This is the same reason dems never do good things. M4A is popular among the populace, but unpopular among the rich donors, and if they went for it their more conservative opponents would get the donations instead if them and then beat them.

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flabberghaster wrote

Reply to Bernie Sanders released this video, what do you think? --- "I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?" Here is my answer: by twovests

He's not wrong. Obviously trump is worse. We know this. But I'm not voting for genocide.

Fuck the democrats for playing chicken every four years with the presidency. Why are they engaging in this deeply unpopular war and then making it everyone else's fault when they lose? Fuck them.

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Reply to I think, as a subforum, we are rapidly moving away from the ideals of forced masculinization. by twovests

Oh, nice! You're already gatekeeping! Really getting into the spirit of the place!

(I don't really know anything about force femme or force masc, I just went with the vibe I picked up from the first few posts I saw in here)

All my posts were riffing on "you're being turned in to a man. Your beliefs are becoming so ridiculous and patently unreasonable" I guess.

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flabberghaster wrote

Reply to comment by nitori in Why is microwaving tea frowned upon? I'm not racist, but my microwaved tea always turns out just fine. by cowloom

I think technology connections has a video where he says that while he thinks it sucks to do that, it's pretty energy efficient because the heat gets beamed directly into the water as opposed to using a coil stove. This assumes you don't have an electric kettle.

I might be wrong about the contents of this video. https://youtu.be/_yMMTVVJI4c?si=EKY61S8BddZ0AOKH

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flabberghaster wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by twovests in Controversial Opinion: The Pickle Rick episode is actually good by Moonside

The pickle rick episode is obviously about how rick does all this crazy crap because he's trying to do anything possible to avoid his feelings but the whole show is quite obviously about the same thing. The whole show is about how even tho he's got near godlike powers, his real nemesis is himself and his own egotism, which is a defense mechanism to help him avoid feeling grief and loss, and he can sometimes kind of recognize part of this but he can't really accept it about himself or overcome it long term. That episode is just the most explicit about it.

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